Labor Day Benefit Punk Show and BBQ for DC Jobs With Justice at Rhizome DC on Monday, September 4th, 2017

DC punk bands Puff Pieces, Mock Identity and Psychic Subcreatures shred alongside The Miami Dolphins from Minneapolis, MN at Rhizome DC for an afternoon of grillables and chillables on Labor Day, all to benefit the amazing DC Jobs With Justice and the work they do to fight for working people in the nation’s capital. (Also just added: Cut Shutters from Dallas….)

THE MIAMI DOLPHINS
‘The Miami Dolphins are based in Minneapolis, MN. They have been playing together for half a decade, despite great confusion. In 2012, they were runner-up for the Waterloo, IA Battle of the Bands, losing to a Korn cover band.
Band members find inspiration in: hummingbirds, lakes, intelligent underwater mammals, cotton candy, sour brite crawlers, grapefruit, urban infrastructure, mimosas, broken pieces of cars, cuttlefish, waterskiing, robotics, dandelions, puke, ice cream, and squirrels.
This much is known: this particular Miami Dolphins has no affiliation, sponsorship, or connection whatsoever with any football teams, professional or otherwise.
While ascending to the upper echelons, the Miami Dolphins hope to dazzle, surprise, and confound.’
https://themiamidolphins.bandcamp.com/

PUFF PIECES
‘In 2012, at the behest of Mike Andre, a reluctant Justin Moyer (E.D. Sedgwick/Supersystem) and Amanda Huron (Weed Tree/Caution Curves) were conscripted into helping Mike play and record some unrealized songs he had floating around. After a series of precarious fits and starts, the band coalesced into a semi-stable entity known as “Puff Pieces” in 2013, and began playing shows.
Based on their experiences in various now-defunct bands (Amanda and Mike in Vertebrates, and Mike and Justin in Antelope), and long-term involvement in D.C.’s punk and noise scenes, Puff Pieces strives to destroy the bland hegemony of their city’s condo-crazed culture with a catchy mix of melody and nervous dissonance.’
https://puffpieces.bandcamp.com/album/born-2-die

MOCK IDENTITY
Mock Identity are a dynamic, independent Washington DC band that formed in 2016 and began playing shows in 2017. Their bold music is informed by the members’ various backgrounds performing and interacting with the local DIY/punk and avant-garde communities. They are committed to evolving as artists through their passion, social awareness, and desire to constantly challenge and inspire themselves to explore new ideas.
https://mockidentity.bandcamp.com/

PSYCHIC SUBCREATURES
‘There’s a scene in John Carpenter’s outrageous post-apocalyptic action flick Escape From L.A. in which Kurt Russell’s one-eyed protagonist Snake Plissken surfs a tsunami in the Los Angeles River before jumping off his board onto a car speeding alongside on a freeway. It’s perhaps one of the most ridiculous movie scenes from the ’90s and one I like to imagine inspired the local surf-punk quartet Psychic Subcreatures to start a band.’
https://psychicsubcreatures.bandcamp.com/releases

CUT SHUTTERS
Cut Shutters is a duo between artists Adriana Valls and Chase Gardner. Both aim to challenge themselves and their listeners through their exploration of ideas in composition and performance within their own personal experiences together and the urge to dabble in the unusual and absurd. Recently, they have performed many events throughout Denton and Dallas as well as released their debut album, “It Will Make Sense for Now” on local Dallas label Art for Motels. Today, Chase and Adriana are looking towards what is in front of them in order to project themselves upon the world. Cut Shutters like to tell you what they’re thinking about and share what moments they capture together.
https://cutshutters.bandcamp.com/

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DC JOBS WITH JUSTICE is a dynamic coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society.
We are committed to the creation of living wage jobs, support of economic and social justice here and abroad, and maintaining pressure to demand corporate accountability in our communities.
In its work, DC JwJ gives priority to the struggles impacting the most vulnerable workers in our community: low-wage workers, immigrants, people of color, women, youth and seniors. We are committed to creating an organization that is fully inclusive and welcoming to everyone.

RHIZOME DC is a nonprofit community arts space located at 6950 Maple St NW, in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington DC. We are dedicated to promoting creativity as a force for personal empowerment and community engagement. We also strive to provide a home for non-mainstream programming, and to serve as a hub for people in the community to connect around their shared interests and passions.

We host programs that promote creativity in all its forms. These include concerts, workshops, performances, talks, exhibitions, and demonstration projects in areas such as art, music, technology, theater, local food, poetry, as well as in more esoteric fields of knowledge.

We believe it’s more interesting to make your own culture than to consume culture made by others.

We are exploring new approaches to grassroots community education which seek to blur the lines between amateur and professional, teacher and student, and which free learning from rigid models of instruction and explication.

We also strongly support non-commercial artistic experiences and seek to provide a space for artists to create experimental works and share the results with the broader community.

​Labor Day Benefit Punk Show and BBQ for DC Jobs With Justice at Rhizome DC on Monday, September 4th, 2017

Location

​Rhizome DC,6950 Maple St NW,Washington,DC-20012

Starting on

2017-09-04

Ending on

2017-09-04

Description

DC punk bands Puff Pieces, Mock Identity and Psychic Subcreatures shred alongside The Miami Dolphins from Minneapolis, MN at Rhizome DC for an afternoon of grillables and chillables on Labor Day, all to benefit the amazing DC Jobs With Justice and the work they do to fight for working people in the nation's capital. (Also just added: Cut Shutters from Dallas....)
At Rhizome DC
6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC
3:30 PM BBQ (BYO grillables!)
5:00 PM show
$10-$20 sliding scale donation for DC Jobs With Justice
ALL AGES
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THE MIAMI DOLPHINS
'The Miami Dolphins are based in Minneapolis, MN. They have been playing together for half a decade, despite great confusion. In 2012, they were runner-up for the Waterloo, IA Battle of the Bands, losing to a Korn cover band.
Band members find inspiration in: hummingbirds, lakes, intelligent underwater mammals, cotton candy, sour brite crawlers, grapefruit, urban infrastructure, mimosas, broken pieces of cars, cuttlefish, waterskiing, robotics, dandelions, puke, ice cream, and squirrels.
This much is known: this particular Miami Dolphins has no affiliation, sponsorship, or connection whatsoever with any football teams, professional or otherwise.
While ascending to the upper echelons, the Miami Dolphins hope to dazzle, surprise, and confound.'
https://themiamidolphins.bandcamp.com/
PUFF PIECES
'In 2012, at the behest of Mike Andre, a reluctant Justin Moyer (E.D. Sedgwick/Supersystem) and Amanda Huron (Weed Tree/Caution Curves) were conscripted into helping Mike play and record some unrealized songs he had floating around. After a series of precarious fits and starts, the band coalesced into a semi-stable entity known as “Puff Pieces” in 2013, and began playing shows.
Based on their experiences in various now-defunct bands (Amanda and Mike in Vertebrates, and Mike and Justin in Antelope), and long-term involvement in D.C.’s punk and noise scenes, Puff Pieces strives to destroy the bland hegemony of their city’s condo-crazed culture with a catchy mix of melody and nervous dissonance.'
https://puffpieces.bandcamp.com/album/born-2-die
MOCK IDENTITY
Mock Identity are a dynamic, independent Washington DC band that formed in 2016 and began playing shows in 2017. Their bold music is informed by the members’ various backgrounds performing and interacting with the local DIY/punk and avant-garde communities. They are committed to evolving as artists through their passion, social awareness, and desire to constantly challenge and inspire themselves to explore new ideas.
https://mockidentity.bandcamp.com/
PSYCHIC SUBCREATURES
'There’s a scene in John Carpenter’s outrageous post-apocalyptic action flick Escape From L.A. in which Kurt Russell’s one-eyed protagonist Snake Plissken surfs a tsunami in the Los Angeles River before jumping off his board onto a car speeding alongside on a freeway. It’s perhaps one of the most ridiculous movie scenes from the ’90s and one I like to imagine inspired the local surf-punk quartet Psychic Subcreatures to start a band.'
https://psychicsubcreatures.bandcamp.com/releases
CUT SHUTTERS
Cut Shutters is a duo between artists Adriana Valls and Chase Gardner. Both aim to challenge themselves and their listeners through their exploration of ideas in composition and performance within their own personal experiences together and the urge to dabble in the unusual and absurd. Recently, they have performed many events throughout Denton and Dallas as well as released their debut album, "It Will Make Sense for Now" on local Dallas label Art for Motels. Today, Chase and Adriana are looking towards what is in front of them in order to project themselves upon the world. Cut Shutters like to tell you what they're thinking about and share what moments they capture together.
https://cutshutters.bandcamp.com/
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DC JOBS WITH JUSTICE is a dynamic coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society.
We are committed to the creation of living wage jobs, support of economic and social justice here and abroad, and maintaining pressure to demand corporate accountability in our communities.
In its work, DC JwJ gives priority to the struggles impacting the most vulnerable workers in our community: low-wage workers, immigrants, people of color, women, youth and seniors. We are committed to creating an organization that is fully inclusive and welcoming to everyone.
RHIZOME DC is a nonprofit community arts space located at 6950 Maple St NW, in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington DC. We are dedicated to promoting creativity as a force for personal empowerment and community engagement. We also strive to provide a home for non-mainstream programming, and to serve as a hub for people in the community to connect around their shared interests and passions.
We host programs that promote creativity in all its forms. These include concerts, workshops, performances, talks, exhibitions, and demonstration projects in areas such as art, music, technology, theater, local food, poetry, as well as in more esoteric fields of knowledge.
We believe it's more interesting to make your own culture than to consume culture made by others.
We are exploring new approaches to grassroots community education which seek to blur the lines between amateur and professional, teacher and student, and which free learning from rigid models of instruction and explication.
We also strongly support non-commercial artistic experiences and seek to provide a space for artists to create experimental works and share the results with the broader community.